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...reflects the artist. In the estimation of those who know her, Vu is a deeply sincere, rooted, and kind individual. This unique individuality stands out in Harvard’s competitive culture of networking and self-promotion. Vu is neither averse to nor solely motivated by exhibiting her work. Beattie commends this quality, noting that it speaks to Vu’s intense, personal engagement with her art. “[Vi is] not terribly moved by exhibition. She’s looking for a certain kind of standard… a more personal pursuit of something truly good...
...53—One of our friends says she found out that her ex-boyfriend was cheating when she caught chlamydia from him. Nobody raises an eyebrow because these people have some crazy-ass stories. Neither of us knows what to say. One of us makes a Gossip Girl reference...
...people’s behavior, clearly enough, is neither rational nor remotely predictable. Neither was the volcanic eruption. Having just attended the inaugural conference of George Soros’s Institute for New Economic Thinking, one thing is clear: The ash cloud over the continent is the perfect metaphor for the state of economics as a field. Both in economics amidst the global financial crisis as well as, it turns out, in volcano ash predictions, we are relying too much on models that have proven fallible...
...escaping from the old ones, which ramify, for those brought up as most of us have been, into every corner of our minds.” Fully determined models, for ash clouds or financial markets, may be resilient, but they are intrinsically incomplete, for they account for neither the inherent unpredictability of human action nor the intractability of certain data...
...know I am not the first conservative to bemoan the liberal bias of the Ivy League. It is also true that more liberals than conservatives choose careers in academia. Nevertheless, Harvard is cheating their liberal students by having an overwhelmingly liberal faculty, because neither must vehemently research and defend their views during class debates. Recently I had a face-to-face meeting with Dr. Lisa Coleman, our new Chief Diversity Officer, and I was very encouraged by her willingness to listen and consider these points. I implore her and President Faust to include “political and social ideology?...